boztek

I've updated the instructions to build a nice clean and fast PHP 5.2 stack using my own build scripts and the homebrew build system.

All software is installed into /usr/local for easy management and while it works with the included OS X Apache and libraries where possible it is installed in such a way that system updates from Apple don't clobber anything.

I use this stack as my local PHP and Drupal development environment.

The instructions are rather verbose but if you don't really care how it's done I've attached a build script that will do everything except the final configuration work.

#!/bin/bash

if [ -d /usr/local ]; then
  echo "moving existing /usr/local to /Users/`whoami`/local.bak"
    sudo mv /usr/local ~/local.bak
fi

sudo mkdir /usr/local && sudo chown -R `whoami` /usr/local
curl -L http://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/tarball/master | tar xz --strip 1 -C /usr/local
brew install git
cd /usr/local
git init
git remote add origin git://github.com/mxcl/homebrew.git
git pull origin master
git remote add boztek git://github.com/boztek/homebrew.git && git fetch boztek
git checkout boztek/php52 && git checkout -b working
git pull --rebase origin master
brew install php52 --with-mysql --with-apache

Ain't git grand?